Congratulations to the athletes who performed at the Regional Athletics Championship last Thursday. Their results were as follows: Ben Murdoch came 2nd in the Junior Boys 200m and Long Jump behind ex Newlands student Islam Khaled-Abbas but won the Long Jump. Jarred Hodson finished 6th in the Junior Boys 300m Kushla Smith finished 2nd in […]
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Ms Kersten makes her Pulse Netball Debut
Congratulations to Claire Kersten, our resident semi-pro netball player on staff who finally made her debut for the Central Pulse last night in their victory over the Northern Mystics. Having spent the whole of last season sat on the bench her patience has been rewarded and we hope that this is the first of many […]
Wellington School Athletics Team named
Congratulations to the following students who have been selected in the Wellington team for the North Island Athletics Championship in April following strong performances in the Regional Championships: Ben Murdoch – 200m, 300m, Long Jump, High Jump Kushla Smith – 300m, 800m Verona Conroy – 800m Lateefah Idris – Discus Aprille Mincher – High Jump, […]
Western Zone Athletics 2014
On Wednesday 5 March, 22 athletes attended the Western Zone Athletics meet that was run by Newlands College for this year. The weather had been changeable during the morning but by 2pm it started to rain all kinds of cats and dogs and the meet was eventually cancelled. A number of students did exceptionally well […]
College Sport Article 5 March
Click here to see the College Sport page from the Dominion Post on 5 March
Sports Committee named for 2014
Congratulations to Zac Davies who has been named as Sports Captain for 2014. Zac will be joined by Connor Nolan and Lewis Halpin on a Sports Committee to look at running the interhouse sporting events as well as looking at ways of improving the sporting services we provide the students.
Regional Volleyball Placings and Tournament Teams
Click here to see the placings for Volleyball Regionals as well as the tournament team information. Congratulations to Caitlyn Taniela, Brett Taefu, Isaiah Laulu, Corey Le’aupepe and Austin Vaka-Vivili on making the tournament teams. A special congratulations to Bryan Law who was named the tournament official.
Senior Boys Volleyball Team come runners up at Regionals
Our Volleyball boys can be rightly proud of their achievements at the Senior Volleyball Regionals that took place last weekend. They finished runners up in an amazing final against St Pats Town and a number of them made the tournament team which showed the level of ability that they had. Check out the photos in […]
Senior Touch Mixed team finish runner up at Regionals
The Newlands College Senior Mixed team finished runner up at last weeks Regional Championships. The team won the first 4 games (11-0 v Taita, 2-0 v Paraparaumu, 7-0 v Mana, 6-4 v Wainui) in the 5th round they lost 9-6 to TKW Rua Mano before losing a tight final against the same opponents 5-3. By finishing […]
Cricket 1st XI win a thriller against Onslow
The Newlands 1st XI Cricket team won a thriller against Onslow 2nd XI over the weekend. Set 240 to win after Onslow batter C Turner scored an unbeaten 109, Ishaq Idris (31) and Simon Pask (72) had a 132 run second wicket partnership which set up the opportunity for the victory. Following this partnership Newlands […]